New wireless tech may radically transform mobile video streaming

February 25, 2014

Entrepreneur Steve Perlman has demonstrated a new wireless technology called pcell that he says will facilitate ubiquitous broadband mobile connections, enabling an unlimited number of devices to share the same spectrum simultaneously, Venturebeatreports.

His Artemis Networks startup plans to begin installing pWaves, its little pCell base stations, throughout San Francisco and New York later this year. The technology is compatible with standard LTE devices, such as many mobile phones.

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This is the holy grail of a universe of applications. It is the most revolutionary thing in history. A Nobel prize will be least of its accolades.

My deepest concern is weaponization and terrorization. On the other hand it could once and for all eliminate personal military conflict. Think mutually assured destruction at the individual level. It’s hard to fight in a Faraday cage.

Hmm, with pointwise communication how do you prevent pointwise jamming?

Whoa. That’s so cool. I really hope this thing will work as well as they say it will. And I think that talk was pretty darn convincing.

I work in the games industry, and the fact that some people are going to be playing with a ping of +300 forces us to scrap some really great features sometimes.
This could change a lot of things. Games are just one example.

With this technology it would be so much smoother and reliable to connect everything to super computers an do some incredible stuff. Transportation, medicine, security…
Man, I’m so happy to be alive in this times C:

Onlive was a great concept which again could have shifted the processing back to the server in the cloud but bandwidth (and latency in gaming) limited the acceptance. However, with this new service it could open up more possibilities to incredibly enhance the capabilities of our mobile devices especially when paired up with high powered servers doing the processing and the phone display effectively just being the display. Sure the phones will still be getting exponentially more powerful computationally but when internet connected they have the capability to be and do so much more.

We are already becoming BW limited in streaming Netflix and other services so the problem is every ding dong with a smartphone and tiny screen will want HD video. Build in some detection and resolution limits.